Questions on John 8:1-30

Questions on John chapter 8

1. Whose home where Jesus was a frequent guest was near the Mount of Olives? Verse 1.

2. Why do you think so many people assembled so early in the morning? Verse 2.

3. What does the cold and cruel manner in which the woman was brought in say about the moral principles of those involved? Verse 3.

4. What does it say about the motives of the woman’s accusers in that no man was brought in with her? Verse 4.

5. What was hypocritical about their appeal to what the Law said? Verse 5.

6. In what dilemma did the Jews think they had Jesus? Was Jesus worried or at a loss for words? Verse 6. 7. How did Jesus take the discussion from a judicial level to a moral question? Verse 7.

8. How did Jesus indicate that the discussion was over? Verse 8.

9. Although Jesus gave them the authority to carry out the death sentence if they were morally qualified, why didn’t they do it? Verse 9.

10. What significant thing happened while Jesus was writing on the ground? Verse 10.

11. How did Jesus condemn the sin but show compassion for the sinner? Verse 11.

12. If light is a figure of truth, what would the figure of darkness be? Verse 12. 13. How was the Pharisees’ statement a rebuttal of Jesus’ statement in John 5:31? Verse 13.

14. Why was the rule not applicable in Jesus’ case? Verse 14.

15. How was Jesus’ judgment different from that of the Jews? Verses 15-16.

16. What two bore witness of Jesus, thus satisfying the demands of the Law? Verses 17-18.

17. How would they have known the Father, what would they have recognized in Jesus? Verse 19.

18. Where Jesus spoke was in an open place and it was near to what place of danger for him? Verse 20. 19. Jesus’ listeners made a joke out of his statements, but to what sad reality was Jesus actually referring? Verses 21-22.

20. Although the source of their nature caused them to follow the course they did, what way of escape did Jesus offer them? Verses 23-24.

21. Were Jesus’ listeners aware of whom Jesus claimed to be? Verse 25.

22. To what great truth had their traditions and bitterness of heart blinded them? Verses 26-27.

23. When would they know that Jesus was indeed the Christ? Verses 28-29.

24. Did Jesus’ words have any impact at all on his hearers? Verse 30.

25. What is involved in “knowing the truth”? Verses 31-32. 26. When Jesus says “committeth sin,” does he mean that committing a single sin makes a person the servant of sin? Verses 33-34.

27. As bond-servants, what was about to happen to the Jews, and what was their only hope? Verses 35-36.

28. Although the Jews claimed Abraham as their father, in what way was he not their father? Who was their father, according to Jesus? Verses 37-38.

29. How did the Jews prove that they were not the spiritual descendants of Abraham? Verses 39-40.

30. What do the Jews mean by saying, “We be not born of fornication”? Verse 41.

31. What would have happened if God had truly been the Father of the Jews? Verse 42. 32. Calvinists say that they could not hear because they were not of “the elect.” If not true, what is the teaching of this verse? Verse 43.

33. How was the devil a murderer, and how did the Jews show they were spiritually derived from him? Verse 44.

34. As children of their father, what was the only kind of speech the Jews believed? Verse 45.

35. What must be admitted by the silence of the Jews to Jesus’ questions? Verse 46.

36. What proved the Jews were not of God? Verse 47.

37. Why do you think the Jews called Jesus a Samaritan? Verse 48. 38. What did Jesus do that no demon would do? Verse 49.

39. Into whose hands is the matter of maintaining and vindicating the honor of Jesus? Verse 50.

40. What does it mean to “keep” Jesus’ saying? Verse 51.

41. Why were the Jews convinced now that Jesus was demon-possessed? Verse 52.

42. What was the argument and motive of the Jews in reply to Jesus’ statement? Verse 53.

43. How did Jesus answer the charge in verse 53 of self-glorification? Verse 54. 44. In what way would Jesus be like the Jews, if he said he knew not the Father? Verse 55.

45. In what way did Abraham see Jesus’ day and rejoice? Verse 56.

46. What was the Jews’ problem, as seen in this verse? Verse 57.

47. What is the significance of the two verbs “was” and “am”? Verse 58.

48. Why did the Jews take up stones to cast at Jesus? Verse 59.